Twelve o’clock

What 🕛 means

A clock face with both hands pointing straight up at twelve. It means noon or midnight, the turning point of the day or night.

People use it for lunchtime, a midday deadline or the countdown to midnight on New Year's Eve. It also fits Cinderella jokes about having to be home by midnight. In work chat it marks a noon meeting.

Clock emoji cannot show a.m. or p.m., so each face works for day or night.

Facts

Twelve o’clock 🕛 is an emoji in the travel and places category, under time. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :clock12: or :twelve_oclock:. People also look for it with words like “12”, “12:00”, “clock”, or “o’clock”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

travel & places · Unicode 6.0